Dissecting Anatomy Lab: Epilogue
Editor’s Note: We are featuring a series of essays by Kate Crofton on anatomy lab. Her essays are based on 27 interviews with medical students, faculty, clinicians and donors. This is the fifth and...
View ArticleReflections on Donor 8
Everyone warned me that anatomy block was notoriously one of the most rigorous in the pre-clinical years. I would also be meeting my classmates for the first time in person. But we had just concluded...
View ArticleA Meditation on the Anatomy Lab
Waiting outside the anatomy lab doors just before my first cadaveric dissection, I found myself unaffected by the sense of nervousness that palpably pervaded the rest of my class. For me – a first-year...
View ArticleReflections on M1, Part 1: A Curriculum Like No Other
On July 27, 2020, I began the first day of orientation week at the Medical College of Georgia (MCG). After over four years of living in Atlanta, the initial 25-minute drive from home to school threw me...
View ArticleCatching Threads at the End of Preclinical
Perhaps, this story begins with pre-med classes, interview trails, years of toil and strife: different pathways that led my classmates and me to cramped cars in Dewey lot, long hours in Chilcott and...
View ArticleHow Social Distancing is Affecting the Elderly
For many of the elderly and their families, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a scary and trying time. A major concern has been the physical health and safety of this vulnerable population. In addition to...
View ArticleThank You, Doctor
I was patiently sitting in the lobby at Quest Diagnostics, waiting for the staff to slowly let people inside in adherence with the new social distancing guidelines. I waited for about ten minutes...
View ArticleHow Your Neurons Respond to Art
It was 5:00 P.M. on a Thursday and I had just finished my first preceptorship session with my fourth-year medical student preceptor. That afternoon was one of many firsts, as it was also the first time...
View ArticleReflections on M1, Part 2: The Extracurricular Gamble of Medical School
The goal of this series of reflective essays is to help me process new insights and dilemmas I encounter throughout the preclinical phase of medical school. I hope that they will resonate with others...
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A Microbiography: A Reflection on Microbiology
Open sewage ran beside homes made of handmade brick in Pau da Lima. In a valley of the favela in Salvador, Brazil, my fieldwork team usually ate our lunches in the shade, conversing with an elderly man...
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